1.

It is essential to understand behaviors and beliefs that affects ourselves and others specifically in
becoming effective and successful person in life, work, and relationship. Moreover, self-
understanding (1) provides a sense of purpose; (2) leads to healthier relationships; (3) helps
harness your natural strength; and (4) promotes confidence.
Ans: Understanding oneself
2. It is the overall pattern or integration of a person’s structure, modes of behavior, attitudes,
aptitudes, interests, intellectual abilities, and many other distinguishable personality traits.
Ans: Personality
3. This factor is traditionally considered as the major determinants of an individual’s personality.
Ans: Cultural Factors
4. This includes the neighborhood a person lives in, his school, college, university and workplace.
Moreover, it also counts the social circle the individual has.
Ans: Environmental Factors of Personality
5. It can be commonly observed when a person behaves contrastingly and exhibits different traits
and characteristics
Ans: Situational Factors of Personality
6. The preliminary results from the electrical stimulation of the brain (ESB) research gives indication
that better understanding of human personality and behavior might come from the study of the
brain.
Ans: Brain
7. Genetic make-up of the person that inherited from their parents. This describes the tendency of
the person to appear and behave the way their parents are;
Ans: Hereditary factors
8. Include the overall physical structure of a person: height, weight, color, sex, beauty and body
language, etc.
Ans: Physical features
9. The most widely used system of traits
Ans: Five Factor Model
10. Reflect people’s characteristic patterns of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
Ans: Personality Traits
11. OCEAN means
Ans: Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism
12. The tendency to agree and go along with others rather than to assert one owns opinions and
choices.
Ans: Agreeableness
13. The tendency to appreciate new art, ideas, values, feelings, and behaviors
Ans: Openness
14. The tendency to be frequently experience negative emotions such as anger, worry, and sadness,
as well as being itnerpersonally sensitive.
Ans: Neurotism
15. The tendency to be talkative, sociable, and to enjoy others; the tendency to have a dominant
style.
Ans: Extraversion
16. The tendency to be careful, on-time for appointments, to follow rules, and to be hard working
 Ans: Conscientiousness
17. . Understanding of who you are as a person is called
Ans: Self- Concept
18. Understanding what your motives are when you act is called
Ans: Self- understanding
19. It consists of attributes and personality traits that differentiate us from other individuals.
Ans: Individual self
20. It reflects our membership in social groups
Ans: Collective self
21. It is defined by our relationships with significant others. Examples include siblings, friends, and
spouses
Ans: Relational self
22. It is defined as the study of knowledge or wisdom from its Latin roots, philo (love) and sophia
(wisdom).
Ans: Philosophy
23. A philosopher from Athens, Greece and said to have the greatest influence on European
thought.
Ans: Socrates
24. A student of Socrates, who introduced the idea of a threepart soul/self that is composed of
reason, physical appetite and spirit or passion.
Ans: Plato
25. He is considered as the last of the great ancient philosophers whose ideas were greatly Platonic.
Ans. St. Augustine
26. A French philosopher, mathematician, and considered the founder of modern philosophy.
Ans: Rene Descartes
27. An English philosopher and physician and famous in his concept of “Tabula Rasa” or Blank Slate
that assumes the nurture side of human development.
Ans: John Locke
28. He was a Scottish philosopher and also an empiricist.
Ans: David Hume
29. A well-known Australian psychologist and considered as the Father and Founder of
Psychoanalysis. His influence in Psychology and therapy is dominant and popular in the 20th to
21st century.
Ans: Sigmund Freud
30. A British analytical philosopher. He was an important figure in the field of Linguistic Analysis
which focused on the solving of philosophical puzzles through an analysis of language.
Ans. Gilbert Ryle
31. A German Philosopher who made great contribution to the fields of metaphysics, epistemology,
and ethics. Kant is widely regarded as the greatest philosopher of the modern period.
Ans: Immanuel Kant
32. A French philosopher and phenomenologist.
Ans: Maurice Merleau-Ponty
33. Dialectic method involves the search for the correct/proper definition of a thing. In this method,
Socrates did not lecture, he instead would ask questions and engage the person in a discussion.
 Ans: Socratic Method
34. Who is the philosopher that command to “Know Thyself”.
Ans: Socrates
35. According to him, it is always the responsibility of the reason to organize, control, and
reestablish harmonious relationship between these three elements.
Ans: Plato
36. He believed that the physical body is different from the immortal soul. Early in his philosophical
development he described body as “snare” or “cage” of the soul and said that the body is a
“slave” of the soul he even characterized that “the soul makes war with the body”.
Ans: St. Augustine
37. According to him, the human nature is composed of two realms: God as the source of all reality
and truth and the sinfulness of man.
Ans. St. Augustine
38. Illustrated this famous principle the “cogito, ergo sum—“I think, therefore I exist” established his
philosophical views on “true knowledge” and concept of self.
Ans: Rene Descartes
39. He explained that in order to gain true knowledge, one must doubt everything even own
existence. Doubting makes someone aware that they are thinking being thus, they exist.
Ans: Rene Descartes
40. The self, according to him is consciousness. In his essay entitled On Personal Identity (from his
most famous work, Essay Concerning Human Understanding) he discussed the reflective analysis
of how an individual may experience the self in everyday living.
Ans: John Locke
Two interrelated disciplines that contributes to the understanding of self. Sociology and Anthropology

It is the study of humanity. Anthropology

It is the science that studies the development, structure, interaction, and collective behavior of human
being. Sociology

An American philosopher, sociologist and psychologist and one of the founders of social psychology and
the American sociological tradition in general. George Herbert Mead

He claimed that the self is something which undergoes development because it is not present instantly
at birth. George Herbert Mead

He argued that the self like the mind is social emergent. This means that individual selves are the
products of social interaction and not logical or biological in nature. George Herbert Mead

Skills at knowing and understanding the symbols of communication is important for this constitutes the
basis of socialization. Play Stage

The child is about eight or nine years of age and now does more than just role-take. The child begins to
consider several tasks and various types of relationships simultaneously. Game Stage

At this stage, children’s behaviors are primarily based on imitation and Mead believed that the self-did
not exist at birth. Instead, the self develops over time. Preparatory Stage